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Sunday, November 2, 2008

Another trip to the pumpkin patch!

A bunch of us met at Bates Nut Farm for pumpkins last weekend, and our kids got wheel barrow rides and hay rides after we picnic'd under the mulberry trees. I didn't take a lot of pictures, but of course we all whipped out our cameras when the boys piled up in the wheel barrow, and then I couldn't resist not snapping a shot of Izzy while she munched on her BBQ'd corn on the cob. Baby Kalli and Cynthia were having fun watching all the action.

"We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that everything in every moment is essential and that nothing at all is 'important.' "--Helen M. Luke

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."--Miles Davis

"It may be human nature to see life in terms of highs and lows, but the bulk of it, really, is just navigating the vast, annoyance-flecked stretches in between--without inflating them into dramas."--Carolyn Hax"i thank you godfor most this amazing day; forthe leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue truedream of sky;and for everythingwhich is naturalwhich is infintitewhich is yes."--e.e. cummings"The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective."--Henry David Thoureau

"I write as I might sew—cutting out the pieces, threading them to each other—not knowing until they are connected whether the garment might flow, hang, wrinkle or sag."--Twigg and Bug

Parenthood provides us a different ruler with which to measure our wealth.

The golden bees are making sweet honeyFrom all my old failures.--Antonio Machado